Door-hanger.



No. 839,620. PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

P. A. MYERS;

DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MARJZ, 1906.

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PATENTBD DEC. 25, 1906.

P. A. MYERS. DOOR HANGER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

PHILIP A. MYERS, OF ASHLAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO F. E. MYERS AND BROTHER, OF ASHLAND, OHIO, A OOPARTNERSHIP.

DOOR-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

pvlication filed March 12, 1906. Serial No. 305,451.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the county of Ashland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers, of which the following is. a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to door-hangers, and more particularly to that class known as sliding barn-door hangers, in which the door is uninclosed and preferably free to swing around an axis extending horizontally in the direction of travel of the door.

It is the object of my present invention to provide a construction whereby the door may be readily adjusted both vertically and laterally, so as to not only adjust or regulate the height of the door relatively to the track on which it travels, but also the position of the door relatively to the building to which it is applied, so that the lower edge of the door may be brought into proper relation to the floor, sill, or other surface over which it travels, while the body of the door may be moved toward and from the building, so as to cause it to travel in proper relation thereto.

Other advantages attendant upon my construction in its preferred form are that the wheel frame or support which constitutes the upper part of the hanger is free to turn or swivel around a vertical axis relatively to the lower part of the hanger, which is fixedly connected to the door, so as to move in unison therewith, so that the said support or frame, with its wheel or wheels, is free to follow sinuosities of the track arising from accidental crookedness thereof; that the construction is such that theadjusting devices in no wise interfere with the free lateral swinging of the door hereinbefore referred to, and that the structure is readily adapted to doors of different thickness.

To the attainment of these ends my invention consists in certain novel features, which I will now proceed to describe and will then particularly point out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing in elevation a structure embodying my invention in one form. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing another embodiment of my invention. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional View. Fig. 5 isa detail perspective view of the knuckle detached; and Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of the lower part of the hanger, similar to what is shown in Figs. 2 and 4 except that the adjusting-sleeve is shown in full section. I Referring first to the construction shown more particularly in Figs. 1, 2, and 5, 1 indicates a building having a doorway 2 and door 3. 4 indicates a suitable track located above the doorway, on which the door-hangers which support the door travel. Ordinarily there are two of these hangers, as shown, located one near each end of the door. Each hanger comprises an upper portion, provided with a wheel to travel upon the track, and a lower portion, secured to the door and pivotally connected to the upper portion, so as to be free to swing relatively thereto around an axis parallel with the track. Referring first to the upper portion, it comprises a wheel support or frame 5, preferably in the form of a housing, in which is mounted a grooved wheel 6, adapted to fit and travel on the track 4. This wheel frame or support is also preferably provided with a guide lug or guard 7, which extends around the lower edge of the track and serves to prevent accidental derailment of the hanger.

ever, be of any approved construction. The

wheel-support has connected to it a vertically-adjustable threaded member or bolt 8, and in the particular construction now under consideration the wheel-support is provided with a threaded lug 9, in which the threaded member or bolt 8 fits and in which it is vertically adjustable by rotating either the bolt or support. The support is also preferably provided with a hollow cylindric boss or housing 10, which incloses and protects the upper end of the bolt. The lower end of the bolt is bent or deflected laterally, as indicated at 11, and terminates in an apertured lug 12, which whenthe parts are in their normal working position lies below and in the central plane of the track and wheel, as shown in Fig. 2. Referring now to the lower part of the hanger, it comprises two separate plates 13 and 14, located on opposite sides of the door, secured thereto by bolts 15 and extending, preferably, above the top of the door. In the upper end of one of these plates-for instance, the plate 13there is mounted an adjusting-sleeve 16 .which oonnects the lower port-ion of the which is movable in thedirection of its length I through an aperture 17 in the plate 13 and which itself is provided with an internal aperture 18, extending longitudinally of its.

at,i.tsouter end. with a wrench grasp-head 20 or other suitable means by which 1t may be readily rotated, while its inner end is providedwltha circumferential groove 21 to receive the knuckle hereinafter described,

hanger to theupper portion. The pin 19 may be secured. to the plate 14 in any suitablemanner-as, for instance, that shown, in which the pin passes through a suitable aperture-in the upper end of the plate 14 and is provided on the inner side of said plate with a collar 22 to fit against the same, while its outer end is headed down or riveted against the outer faceof the plate, as incicated at 23. Preferably the plates 13 and 14 areiseparate, and the sleeve 16 andpin 19 are made of a length sufficient to adapt them for use in connection with doors of diiferent thickness, to which the separate plates may be readily applied. The lower portion of the hanger: also comprises a knuckle, (in-iioated asa whole by the reference-numeral 24 and shown in detail in Fig. 5 of the drawings.) This knuckle atits lower end engages the groove 21 of the adjusting-sleeve 16, being preferably provided for'this purpose with a loop or half-collar 25, which fits the lower and side portions of said groove. Said knuckle is pivoted to the lower end of the verticallythreaded member or bolt 8, and to this end it is shown as provided with parallel. lugs 26, havin apertures 27 and adapted to receive between them the apertured lug 12 on the lower end of the bolt 8. The inner faces of the ;lugs26 are cut away at the sides, as indicated at 28, to reduce the width of their inner portions to the width of. the groove 21, andthereby permit the engagement of the knuckle with said groove. A removable pivot-pin =orpintle 29 extends through all three of these lugs and is secured in position byanysuitable means as, for instance, the split pins 30,.as shown .in. Figs. 1 and 3. This A pivot-pin constitutes the connecting devices between the upper and lower portions of the hanger, so that the door may be readily detached or taken .down by removing these pins and as readily replaced. It will be noted that these pins constitute the pivots whereon the door swings laterally with respect to the track, and the pivotal axis of this swinging movement is below the track and in the central plane of the track and wheels.

It will be noted that by rotating the vertical threaded member or bolt 8 with respect to the wheel-support 5 or conversely the door may be raised or lowered relatively to the track, so as to bring its lower edge into the proper or desired relation to the surface over which it travels. It will also be seen that by rotating the adjusting-sleeve 16 the door may be moved bodily toward or from the building or other structure to which the track is applied. It will also be noted that the arrangement of the adjusting devices is such that. they in no wise interfere with the free swinging of the door laterally upon its pivot-pins 29, the-devices effecting the vertical adjustment constituting a part of the upper portion of the hanger, while those effecting the lateral adjustment constituting a part of the lower portion of the hanger, and the separable connecting-pivot being located between the two adjusting devices. Furthermore, in case of any bends or sinuosities of the track the wheel-supportand wheel are free to turn about the vertical axis of the bolt 8, thus permitting these-parts to adjust themselves to the track by varying their relation to the normal plane of the door, and thereby preventing binding and excessive friction between the wheels and track. Referring more particularly to the lower portion of the, hanger, it .will be seen that it is particularly adapted for application to doors of different thickness, since the two plates 13 and 14 are separate, and the connecting-bolts. 15,by which they are secured to the door, may ob.- viously be of any desired length, while the sleeve 16 and pin 19 areof suflicientlength to permit them to. accommodate themselvesto considerable variations of distance between the plates 13 and 14.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown another embodiment of my invention in which the lower portion of the hanger is identical, with that already described and shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and therefore needs no furtherdescription; The upper portion differs from that already described in that the wheel frame or support here indicated by the reference-numeral 31, is provided with two track-wheels 32, ar-.- ranged one in front of the other, thus constituting what is known as a tandem trolley or hanger. The body of this frameor support is provided between the two wheel-housings 33 with two guide lugs 01 flanges 34, having unthreaded apertures 35, through which the vertical threaded member or bolt, hereindicated by the reference-numeral 36, passes in such a way. as to be freely movable 1on gitudinally therethrough. 37 repre,ents. a

.nut threaded upon the bolt 36 and supported uponone of the guide lugs or flanges 34, preferably the upper one, where it is readily accessible. Rotation of this nut in one direction or the other will obviously raise or lower the door relatively to the track. This particular form of construction of the devices for effecting the vertical adjustment has the advantage that it may be readily operated without rotation of either the bolt or wheelframe, so that the adjustment may bereadily effected whenallthe parts are in position and connected. Of course the swiveling movement of the wheel-frame around the vertical axis of the bolt is present in this construction, as in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and this swiveling movement is of particular advantage in connection with the tandem arrangement of two wheels in a single supportingframe, since the tendency to binding between the wheels and track is much greater with such a structure than with a single wheel. Of course the swiveling movement described involves a rotation of the screw-threaded member, and when the part into which it is threaded does not rotate with said member, as in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and also in the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4, when the nut 37 binds on the support 34, theoretically this involves a slight change in the vertical adjustment of the door; but in practice the angle of deviation of the hanger from a straight line of travel and the extent of rotation of the threaded member are so small that the vertical movement of the door arising therefrom is imperceptible and too minute to have any practical effect upon the vertical adjustment.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a hanger supporting said door and comprising a frame, a track-wheel carried by said frame, a threaded part carried by said frame, a threaded member engaging said threaded part and thus supported by the frame, and means for pivotally connecting said threaded member and the door, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a hanger comprising a frame, a trackwheel carried by said frame, a threaded part carried by said frame, an uprightthreaded member or bolt adjustably supported from the wheel-frame by said threaded part and having its lower end laterally deflected, and means for pivotally connecting the door to the deflected lower end of said bolt in the vertical plane of thetrack, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a frame, a track-wheel mounted thereon, a non-rotating upright threaded member or bolt supporting the door and extending upward through an unthreaded portion of the wheel-frame, and a nut supported on said wheel frame and engaging said threaded member to support the same and adjust it vertically, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a wheel-frame, track-wheels mounted the one in front of the other on said wheelframe, an adj usting-bolt supporting the door and passing loosely upward through the wheel-frame between the wheels, so that said frame may swivel on said bolt, said bolt extending above the frame, and a nut mounted on said extended end of the bolt and resting on top of the wheel-frame, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a wheel-frame, a non-rotating up right threaded member connected to the door and supported from the wheel-frame, said wheel-frame being free to turn around the vertical axis of said threaded member to adjust itself to the track, and a threaded part carried by said wheel-frame and engaging said threaded member, said engagement serving as a means for vertically adjusting the door, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a hanger comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, a track-wheel mounted on the upper portion, the lower portion comprising separate plates secured to the sides of the door, a threaded adjusting member supported by said plates and having a length suflicient to adapt it to doors of different thickness, and a part engaging said adjusting member, movable laterally thereby to adjust the position of the door and sup ported from the upper portion of the hanger, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a hanger comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, a track-wheel mounted on the upper portion, the lower portion comprising plates secured to the door, a supporting-pin carried by one of said plates and extending toward the other plate, an ad justing sleeve passing through said other plate and provided with an axial aperture to receive the supporting-pin, said adjustingsleeve having a lateral adjustment in its supporting-plate, and a part supported from the upper portion of the hanger and engaging said adjusting-sleeve so as to move longitudinally therewith, substantially as described.

8. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a hanger comprising an upper por- I mounted on the upperportion,'thelower portion comprising plates secured to the door, a supporting-pin carried by 1 one of said plates andlextending towardithe otherzplate, an adjusting-sleeve threaded ithrough said 'other plate provided with'an axial aperture to receive the supporting-pin. and having a circumferential groove, and 1a knuckle detachably connectedtothe-upper portion of the hanger and engaging the groove of the adjusting sleeve,-substantiallyas described.

9. The combination, with a track, and'a door,-of azh'anger comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, a track wheel mounted on theiupperportion,'the lower portion"comprising'platessecuredto the door-ya supporting-pinacarried by one oiitheplate's and' eXtend-ingtowardtheotherplate, an adjusting sleeve threaded through said other plate, having an axial aperture to receivelthe supporting-pin, lPIOVidCd with a circumferentialgroove, a knuckle piece of yoke-like form engaging said groove, and a removable pivot+pin connecting said knuckle-piece and th'eupper portion of the h=anger;-substantially as described.

10. The combination, with a track, anda door, offah'angercomprising an upper portion and a. lower portion, a track-wheel mounted =on the upper portion, a vertical member adj ust ablein' said upperiportion, the lower portion secured to the-door, a transverse threaded adjusting member mounted in the lowerportion, a knuckleengaging'said transverse adjusting member, rand'ra removable pivot-pin connecting said knuckle and vertically-adjust able member, substantially as described.

1 1. The combination, with a track, and a door, of a hanger-comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, a trackwheel mounted on'the'upper portion,-the lowerportion being secured to "the door, a transverse adjusting member having a: threaded engagementwiththe'lowerrportion of the hanger so as to move transversely with respect thereto when rotated, and apart supportedfrorn: the upper portion of the hanger. and having :a

swiveled eonnection with said adjustingsleeve so as 'to move transverselyitherewith, 1 substantially as described Intestimony whereof I affiXtmy: signature .in presenceof two Witnesses.

PHILIP A. MYERS. 

